Marsh Farm overbridge, view east, 4 October 1994
Marsh Farm overbridge, view east (see all photos of the same view)
With work on the bridges on this section not yet started, the future M65 is a muddy haul road between new boundary fences.
Date
4 October 1994
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
East
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It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.
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M1 under construction
Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.
